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Marking Hiroshima bombing anniversary

Wed 6 Aug 2014

Children release paper lanterns on the Motoyasu river facing the gutted building known as the Atomic Bomb Dome, Hiroshima, Japan, in remembrance of victims on the 69th anniversary of the bombing of the city on August 6th, 1945. A US B-29 Superfortress bomber, the Enola Gay, dropped the atomic device, nicknamed Little Boy, in the closing days of the second World War. Photograph: Kyodo agency

People pray for the victims of the 1945 atomic bombing in the Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima. Photograph: Kyodo agency

A student participates in a peace rally to commemorate the 69th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima in Mumbai, India, on August 6th, 2014. Photograph: Danish Siddiqui/Reuters

A student participates in a peace rally to commemorate the 69th anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing in Mumbai, India. Photograph: Danish Siddiqui/Reuters

Students offer prayers for victims killed by what was the world's first atomic bombing as a weapon of war. Photograph: Kimimasa Mayama/EPA

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People wait their turn to offer prayers for victims of the bombing in Hiroshima. Photograph: Kimimasa Mayama/EPA

The crew of the Enola Gay, from left, Capt Theodore Van Kirk, Col Paul Tibbets and Maj Thomas Ferebee, pose for a photograph after dropping the atomic bomb on Hiroshima on August 6th, 1945. They had landed in the Mariana Islands in the Pacific. Van Kirk, the navigator and last surviving crew member of the plane, died on July 28th, 2014, in Stone Mountain, Georgia, US. He was 93. Photograph: US Air Force/New York Times

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August 1945: The ground and flight crew of the Enola Gay at Tinian in the Mariana Islands, after the atomic bombing mission on Hiroshima. Photograph: MPI/Getty Images

Theodore 'Dutch' Van Kirk, navigator on the Enola Gay, photographed in August 2010. He died on July 28th, 2014. Photograph: Bita Honavar/EPA